Maintenance Electrician (QB Wellington) | North Island - Other

Job Description

Goodman Fielder New Zealand is one of the largest branded food manufacturers and suppliers in New Zealand, serving customer needs with a portfolio of iconic, trusted food brands that New Zealanders have grown up with and enjoy every day. Our excellent portfolio of consumer brands includes Vogel's, Molenberg, Freya's, Meadow Fresh, Tararua, Puhoi Valley and Edmonds … just to name a few!

We are passionate about our iconic brands and products, and strive to be the best place to work in New Zealand. We are looking for talented and passionate individuals to join our business and be part of our success.

About the opportunity:
We are currently looking for a maintenance engineer / electrician responsible for safety, quality, reactive and preventative maintenance, efficiency, and cost-effective management of the Engineering function including plant, buildings, project management, new installations, contractor management. Shifts are predominantly on dayshift, Sunday to Thursday with being on call at night.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Support the execute actions plans and/or innovate to improve further
• Mitigate risk for our people, environment, and GF through the promotion of injury and incident prevention & management
• Mitigate quality risk for our consumers and brands through consistent delivery of quality standards
• Support and drive operational effectiveness including deep dive reviews, improvement projects, actions plan, CI, plant maintenance, inventory etc
• Improve the reliability of machinery
• Schedule and perform regular routine maintenance tasks
• Attend to unplanned maintenance tasks (Breakdowns)
• Perform general Engineering, repairs when required
• Develop and Implement plant improvements to all machinery ensuring compliance with QA, Food Safety and HSE requirements

About You

In order to be successful in this role, we are looking for an experienced maintenance engineer who has a background in both reactive and preventative industrial machinery maintenance.

Experience and qualifications we would like to see include:

• Electrical qualification & EWRB registration
• Experience with root cause analysis of PLC (Siemens & Allen-Bradley)
• Health, Safety and Environment knowledge, including machinery guarding
• A strong growth mindset with an eagerness to learn new skills
• Basic computer documentation skills in Word, Excel etc.

What we can offer

You will be joining a driven team of professionals who genuinely enjoy working together resulting in a highly collaborative and flexible work environment making some of New Zealand's most loved baked brands. In return for your passion and success, we will reward you with a competitive remuneration package and help you to achieve personal and professional growth and development.

At Goodman Fielder, we aim to be a destination employer in the food industry where we don't just offer jobs - we offer long-term careers.

What are you waiting for? Apply now.

At Goodman Fielder, we strongly believe in diversity and inclusion in everything we do. If you require any support throughout your application process then we encourage you to share it with us. We encourage applications from people of all abilities, cultures and gender identities. If you have any questions or would like discuss anything regarding our recruitment process, you are welcome to email us via careers@goodmanfielder.co.nz